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发帖数: 4140 | 1 Limin Wang
136-09 59th Ave
Flushing, NY 11355
Aug. 29, 2019, Thu
Re: Request for Truth and Justice
Government Agency: NYS Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB)
WCB Case#: G2029240
Carrier Case#: 18D48F512440
Date Of Injury (DOI): Jan. 16, 2018
Injured Worker and Claimant: Limin Wang
Direct Employer: B.Q. Wide Auto Body Parts Supply, Inc.
Headquarters Employer: KSI Auto Parts
Professional Employment Organization: TriNet/SOI (Strategic Outsourcing Inc.)
Third Party Administrator (TPA): Cannon Cochran Management Services, Inc. (
CCMSI)
Claim Adjuster: Ms. Lisa White (from CCMSI)
Employer/TPA’s attorney: Jones Jones LLC
My former WC attorney’s law firm: Bangel, Cohen & Falconetti, LLP (BCF)
Doctors/Clinics Mentioned Herein: Dr. Mehrdad Golzad, Dr. Chiyoko Kobayashi
Frank (New York City Medical & Neurological Offices, PC)
Dr. Alfred A. Steinberger (Metropolitan Neurosurgery)
Dr. John M. Caridi (Mount Sinai Health System)
New York Medical & Diagnostic Center (NYMDC)
Dear WCB, and other Parties,
Specifically, from the Aug. 30, 2019 hearing, I hope for 1) the workers’
compensation for temporary total disability, retroactive back since Feb. 02,
2019, as well as the C257 reimbursement of total $496.00 for travel fare
and full self-pay to cervical spine MRI without contrast (including $220
from last previous C257, Document ID 323232587, Received date 05/04/2019,
and the receipt of MRI $265); 2) authorizations for the thoracic and lumbar
MRIs (without contrast), physical therapy and training, and medication. The
more later I get the first MRI on these spine segments, the better chance my
opponents can frame the significant findings onto a “pre-injury situation
”; 3) assistance from WCB to locate a physician or clinics to at least
diagnose and treat the spine trauma and sequenae.
The opposition to my requests for truth and justice is expected to be
tremendous, from the employer/insurance general line, the medical
professionals, my formal WC attorney’s law firm BCF, and even some people
within the WCB, because such opposition has been shown in the past. If you
think what I wrote below is sickness, then it’s just the sickness of truth.
I don’t expect a few people to envision my horrible sufferings.
Since DOI, numerous times the whatever said to be insurance carrier was
reportedly not able to be reached by a correct fax or email for
authorizations. The adjustor Ms. Lisa White from TPA CCMSI often ignored
contact from me the claimant, and reportedly ignored my treating physicians
’ offices. This August my call to Ms. White by her prior working #s ended
as if it hit a non-working #.
It’s practically very difficult to find a WCB-authorized physician to
impartially and unbiasedly evaluate and treat the injuries. The WCB online
list of physicians have been found not to take a Workers’ Comp case by
various ways. Some physicians who did offer appointment(s) after the
adjuster’s authorization didn’t even have the time or temper to hear the
how of the injuries and the what of the symptoms, and for some physicians,
not even during the first visit. Some treating physicians know how to lead,
interrupt, or divert the physician-patient communication, do a little
physical examination, avoid the more objective less ambiguous while not so
expensive or risky diagnostic technology such as MRI, and then report in the
medical report with a significant downplay of the etiology, scope, and
severity. Something I didn’t say or say that way may be claimed in a
medical report as the patient’s own words.
To name some specifics, NYMDC (80-46 Kew Gardens Rd, Kew Gardens, NY 11415)
absolutely did the open-mouth view of the craniovertebral junction on me on
March 08, 2018. That patient-access-denied plain X-ray image and the
cervical spine MRI partial images (after rounds of service-denying,
eventually done on Apr. 12, 2018 at Neighborhood Radiology, referred by Dr.
Jacob Sadigh from NYMDC) definitely show fracture of the odontoid process.
NYMDC report about the plain X-ray images claims almost everything normal,
and the 04/12/2018 cervical spine MRI report claims no fracture and blames
much on almost non-existent osteophytes. To my understanding, NYMDC’s
diagnostic and treating reports have never even mentioned the spine trauma.
Due to deterioration of my health and the WC case, after great effort, I
found some other physicians willing to offer an appointment. The Apr. 03,
2019 appointment with Dr. Alfred A. Steinberger (Metropolitan Neurosurgery,
1158 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10029) was first-time quickly authorized by the
adjuster Ms. White and then offered by Metropolitan Neurosurgery on Mar 13,
2019. The two CDs I brought to Dr. AA Steinberger on Apr 03, 2019
definitely includes all five MRIs and the two X-ray sets, but he and his
assistant kept claiming no X-ray data on the disks while I saw they never
loaded the CDs to any drive at all. On April 04, 2019, I stop by to bring a
3rd CD with only the X-ray data, and later Dr. AA Steinberger briefly told
me over an anonymous phone id that “there is no fracture of X-ray.” On the
04/03/19 visit, I provided all reports of all the seven studies too, but
the Metropolitan Neurosurgery handwritten medical notes provided by the
employer attorney lady surprisingly on the Apr 05, 2019 WCB hearing claimed
there were no medical reports and no X-ray image data provided. That
specific report is a typical example report from a treating physician that I
have to disagree to. I was representing myself on the 04/05/19 hearing, and
I was not provided a copy during the hearing. Afterwards, I downloaded and
read that Steinberger report, which was hastily handwritten and even
addressed the adjuster “Ms. White” as “Ms. Wang.” Somehow, my recent
visit to that exact same IDed document found the report had been changed to
a print version at the WCB eCase folder. What’s so alarming to me is the
file previously downloaded to my computer has been replaced with the new
version too. WCB phone receptionists told that a case file can not be
deleted or changed, but the fact says the opposite. Dr. AA Steinberger is
from a prestigious medical school and must has been in medical field for
decades, but apparently I couldn’t get the needed professional help. My
registration paperwork includes my own written report of symptoms, and I don
’t know how that was funneled into some words/sentences in that diagnostic
report. Additionally, how an eminent physician makes a “back to work
without restrictions” based on his concurrent CT prescription with no
insurance authorization or data yet, as well as on his negation of available
affirmative data on fracture? Later on, it even took me a lot of twists to
simply get the 3rd CD back from that Metropolitan Neurosurgery’s Manhattan
office. They said and did to let the assistant as the janitor to pass the CD
through the narrowly opened gate to me.
The Apr 04, 2019 visit to Dr. John M. Caridi (Mount Sinai Health System, 5E
98th St, 4th Fl, New York, NY 10029) produced two referral notes. But the
referral note for eyes situation led to nothing so far, for various reasons,
including no authorization from adjuster Ms. White. The other referral, for
MRI’s on cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine, didn’t go well either.
Although I have provided all my known information about the WC case, Dr.
Caridi’s office staff first kept replying of no response from the insurance
, later became not responsive to my inquiries, then got annoyed of me, and
then the single 04/04/19 visit had five C-4.2 reports on WCB eCase down the
timeline. Since the third report, no MRI referral at all. The fourth and
fifth reports dated as Aug. 13, 2019 even shrank the diagnosis only to the
cervical spine, and of course again no MRI indicated. When I asked about why
the multiple versions, Dr. Caridi’s staff Ms. Shari Hope altogether
avoided that question, and claimed that she had answered that question many
times already, and that any medical service needs insurance’s authorization
. When I mentioned about the rule of “pre-authorized” for diagnostic
imaging like MRI, according to the WCB Medical Treatment Guidelines about
the neck and the back, and total charge asked by Main Street Radiology (MSR,
136-25 37th Ave, Flushing, NY 11355) is $795, below the $1,000 threshold
which indicates an authorization request, Ms. Hope wouldn’t change her
position. She kept repeating that authorization is required and the
insurance adjuster still has not responded yet. More than four months have
passed.
I contacted MSR on Aug. 12th, 2019 for appointments, which were set for Aug.
15 & 16, 2019. Soon, MSR told me the referral doctor still hadn’t heard
any response from the insurance, and offered me a full price of $265 each
for the 3 spine segments MRI. I contacted the Medicaid sourced insurance
EmblemHealth, but found my call couldn’t go through their customer service
line any more to talk with a person. Only several days before, I was able to
call EmblemHealth for medical service help. That approach to my PCP didn’t
produce any meaningful result yet.
On Aug. 15, 2019, at MSR’s downtown Flushing site, MSR’s registration
personnel Ms. Huang prevented me from filling in MSR’s workers’
compensation case form, and didn’t take my EmblemHealth card for scanning,
although I provided both insurances’ info on MSR’s general registration
form. MSR told me that I have to pay full out of pocket to have the MRIs. I
afforded with cash to have only the cervical spine MRI (without contrast)
for $265. MSR personnel claimed the MRI referral note dated on 04/04/2019 is
expired and such a referral is only valid for 90 days. After some delay,
MSR got a faxed referral from Dr. JM Caridi’s office, dated 08/15/2019,
only of cervical spine MRI w/o contrast, with a diagnosis code m47.12. Just
like Dr. AA Steinberger’s report, Dr. JM Caridi’s report stresses about “
degenerative disc disease”. My opponents by all means do not want me to
have a more revealing while less harmful (follow-up) MRI.
After I got the CD of the 08/15/19 MRI, I found the sagittal series didn’t
cover generally symmetric along the medial plane, and the axial series didn
’t cover the craniovertebral junction area well. MSR radiologist Dr.
Jeffery Lee’s report, dated Aug. 16, 2019, claims many things are normal,
and repeatedly stresses the disc/osteophyte complexes” while mentioning the
disc herniation and degeneration. To my very limited current medicine
knowledge on the two available sets of MRIs 16 months apart, and
particularly on the follow-up MRI, 1) vertebral osteophyte is non-existent.
2) still there are the dens fracture, ligamentous disrupt, spinal cord
signal change, cervical spine straightening (even worsens to mild kyphosis),
and intervertebral space narrowing. 3)The disc herniation posteriorly has
disrupted the posterior longitudinal ligament or the other way around. 4)
The disc herniation posterior-inferiorly has penetrated some superior end-
plates, and made some sagittal images with the false osteophyte appearance.
5) The herniation has significantly worsened. 6) The compression on the
spinal cord and roots has worsened. Etc, etc. While what multiple treating
doctors have tried is to discredit the injuries and to shift the blame to
some hypothetical pre-fall spine degeneration, the available MRI images
clearly show the internal damages resulted from that complex mechanism of
fall (vertical acceleration-deceleration compression hyperflexion and
hyperextension of neck and head, body rotation, side way jerk, ref: Document
ID 324974600, Received date 06/10/2019). The comparison of these two MRI
data of the cervical spine does show disc degeneration, but the cause of
disc degeneration is from the fall off the 8-ft stepladder meticulously
tampered by the perpetrators to be broken. The tampered ladders were meant
to specifically harm me, because I was supposed to almost the only one to
use those dangerous ladders.
Very few professional people would openly stand out to help put forth the
truth and help me fight for justice. BCF stated that they wouldn’t delve
into the medical issues. This echoes so well the message I have learned
since the injuries that the physicians decide whether you are injured or not
. The modern technology like MRI is commonplace in developed countries like
the U.S.A., but the injured worker’s opponents have used various ways to
deny the accessibility of (follow-up) MRI to expose the serious damages to
the head and spine. Even some people within the NYS Workers’ Compensation
Board answered me on the phone that the MRI referral doctor needs to file a
MG2 form (for beyond-routine treatment) for the diagnostic test MRI.
The WCB hasn’t been that much of help to me the injured worker. Just to
name a few more points. Some files on WCB eCase have been found with some
errors, and such errors could be very bad to me. A test done on March 05,
2018 by New York City Medical & Neurological Offices, P.C. was shown on
eCase with a date of service of 01/05/2018 (i.e., prior to the DOI, 01/16/
2018. Document ID 304906471, Received date 05/22/2018). The “no medical
evidence” finding on the Feb. 01, 2019 hearing at Jamaica, NY, while I
still had BCF as my WC attorney, was believed to be a deliberate show of my
opponents’ wanton power. Those needed medical reports showed up somehow
after the hearing, on the same Feb. 01, 2019 hearing day. My submission of
the doctor’s medical report wouldn’t show up in eCase fast enough before a
hearing, if I had found the medical report of a most recent visit had not
shown up in eCase for whatever reason. I arrived at Jun. 10, 2019 hearing by
apparently twenty minutes late by public transportation, but the decision
was apparently made right after I arrived, and states that I didn’t show up
. The digital images I provided were not uploaded to eCase to show clear
enough medical information, but the printouts I provided to the WCLJ were
scanned into indiscernible patches and speckles in eCase (Document ID
322226015, Received date 04/05/2019). Recent days, I have seen the opponents
’ wanton play on the medical reports about the Apr 30, May 03, 2019 visits
to Dr. Chiyoko Kobayashi Frank and the Aug 06, 2019 visit to Dr. Mehrdad
Golzad. By Aug. 28, 2019, I have only seen a C-4.2 report stating a May 03,
2019 visit to Dr. Mehrdad Golzad, and specifying Dr. Golzad’s specialty as
psychology, instead of neurology. That report (Document ID 328507982,
Received date 08/21/2019) shows a 90% disability. The fact is the May 03,
2019 visit was to Dr. Frank, a psychologist, at Dr. Frank’s request. The C-
4.2 report I obtained from Dr. Golzad’s office about my Aug 06, 2019 visit
to Dr. Golzad states a 100% disability, and the office told me their billing
company did the medical reports and the billing company said the C-4.2 and
narrative reports for all these three visits had been submitted to WCB this
week. Whatever the delay or mess from other parties is, why I the injured
worker burdens the consequences: suspended compensation for about seven full
months since Feb. 02, 2019, skipped medical appointments, and denied
treatments?
The numerous symptoms from the head and spine injuries have further worsened
and expanded since my written report of symptoms (Document ID 325938598,
Received date 06/27/2019), and the deterioration is still going on. Several
days in this August, I had extreme pseudoangina, and I thought I would
perish in sudden death. The pseudoangina started since DOI of Jan. 16, 2018.
Afterwards, almost every measurement of my blood pressure and pulse rate
showed normal parameters, even when I had the severe pseudoangina during
such a measurement. I reported my recent close-to-death symptom to all
related parties, but nobody else changes anything. I didn’t go for hospital
emergency because my real experiences let me believe more and more of the
premeditated and coordinated murder attempt on me, and I might die sooner in
hospital emergency. Paranoid? The ruthless cruelty is as plain as it is.
Now, what do I fear to expose the cruel truth for the scarce justice?
If you have read the whole thing, I appreciate your time. If you provide me
help in my struggle for justice and survival, I thank you more.
Very Truly Yours,
Limin Wang
Attachments:
1) C-4.2 and narrative reports of Aug. 06, 2019 visit to Dr. Mehrdad
Golzad
2) C-4.2 and narrative reports of Apr. 30 & May 03, 2019 visits to Dr.
Chiyoko Kobayashi Frank
3) C257, MRI charge receipt and referral note
4) MSR radiologist report of Aug 15 2019 cervical spine MRI without
contrast
5) Nine MRI images from Aug 15, 2019 cervical spine MRI without contrast
6) First three pages of filled registration form for Apr 03, 2019 visit
to Dr. Alfred A. Steinberger
7) The cover page of OSHA’s affirmative findings about my complaints | W*******n
发帖数: 4140 | 2 why this post on the forum was deleted? Almost anything can be posted here,
and so many should have better English. Keep it on, please. | W*******n
发帖数: 4140 | 3 The Jamaica WCB office let me wait until 4 pm, i.e., two hours
later than the scheduled time 2 pm. Then I was brought into the
hearing room, and the judge let the policeman stand by. Judge was
once again persuading me to have a lawyer. I had a lawyer on this
case, and I had some contacts with other lawyers. Then, it's just
the claimed to be the employer's lawyer woman on the phone, and it
was their decision to take a few more months to repeat the
procedure they set out since the Apr. 05, 2019 hearing. The live
history is going on. | W*******n
发帖数: 4140 | 4 One piece of evidence why I strongly believe it's a well premeditated and
coordinated murder attempt on me, the EmblemHealth mail. | s*l
发帖数: 9421 | | W*******n
发帖数: 4140 | 6 你这猴儿，认识纽约的接受工伤病人的神经医生吗？
【在 s*l 的大作中提到】
: 不错，祝好运
| W*******n
发帖数: 4140 | 7 要以我的悲惨遭遇，来真实地呈现我在所谓改开四十多年后的特色中
国和自诩民主自由的美国是遭遇如何的奴隶式经历和坚持如何的奴隶式反抗。光
靠武力、谋杀、封杀的政权去吹嘘民主、自由、改革、开放，如何不
让人耻笑，如果不敢公开耻笑？
【在 W*******n 的大作中提到】
: Limin Wang
: 136-09 59th Ave
: Flushing, NY 11355
: Aug. 29, 2019, Thu
: Re: Request for Truth and Justice
: Government Agency: NYS Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB)
: WCB Case#: G2029240
: Carrier Case#: 18D48F512440
: Date Of Injury (DOI): Jan. 16, 2018
: Injured Worker and Claimant: Limin Wang
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